I was all excited to see my Giant Zinnia seedlings sprouting 2 weeks ago after only planting the seeds about 5 days before. A couple days later, every single seedling was gone... into the bellies of those nasty snurly slugs.

I took to slug slaughtering, but how can you find them all? So today I am off to buy some slug killer at Lowes. And now I am going to have to buy zinnia plants after I have rid the flower beds of slugs, and start over. I was really looking forward to Giant Zinnias again, and if Lowes still has some seed packs, I will buy them and plant them too.

I did buy some impatiens at WalMart and some petunias. I have had luck with WalMart's clearance plants. I have been paying half price and haven't gotten a bad plant yet. Started buying there last year. Now to find some pentas for the hummingbirds too!
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